Please join Leo Baeck Institute in welcoming Yair Mintzker author of I, Wandering Jew.
Originating from a mysterious 1602 pamphlet, the legend of the "Wandering Jew" has fascinated and fraught European history for over four centuries. Part historical detective story and part deeply personal memoir, Mintzker鈥檚 work traces the metamorphoses of this infamous antisemitic trope across five centuries. Moving backward in time from 1950s Israel to the myth's 17th-century origins, the author uncovers surprising affinities between his own life and this legendary figure.